“RESCUE ME FROM ME”

 

 

WE NEED YOU, FATHER, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;

NOT JUST MY HOUSE, NOT JUST MY PLACE OF GROWTH.

BUT, WE NEED YOU, FATHER, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, STORMS, AND CALAMITIES;

WARS, SICKNESS, KILLINGS, FOR ALL TO SEE;

AND WE STILL TURN INWARD TO OURSELVES;

RATHER THAN TO THEE.                                                         

 

FATHER RESCUE ME FROM ME.

I CRY WITH A PLEA FROM A BENT KNEE.

FATHER, PLEASE!

COME RESCUE ME FROM ME.

 

THE OLD FORGOT THE YOUNG;

THE YOUNG FORSAKE THE OLD;

NOTHING IS SACRED,

      FOR WE HAVE BROKEN WHAT WAS CREATED WHOLE.

DARKNESS, DISPAIRS, JEALOUSIES,

HUNGER, HOMELESSNESS, AND PAIN

FOR ALL TO SEE;

WE SEEK OUT EACH OTHER,

RATHER THAN LOOK TO THEE.

 

FATHER, RESCUE ME FROM ME.

I CRY WITH A PLEA FROM A BENT KNEE.

FATHER, PLEASE!

COME RESCUE ME FROM ME.

“IF MY PEOPLE; WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,

SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, AND

TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS;

THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE

THEIR SIN, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND”

 

I SEEK THEE!

FATHER, PLEASE!

COME RESCUE ME FROM ME.       

 

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